Harald Helfgott
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Harald Andrés Helfgott (born 25 November 1977) is a Peruvian mathematician working in number theory. Helfgott is a researcher (directeur de recherche) at the CNRS at the Institut Mathématique de Jussieu, Paris.[3] He is best known for submitting a proof, now widely accepted but not yet fully published, of Goldbach's weak conjecture.[4]
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Born | Harald Andrés Helfgott (1977-11-25) 25 November 1977 (age 46) Lima, Peru |
Alma mater | Brandeis University (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
Known for | Proof of Goldbach's weak conjecture |
Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2008) Whitehead Prize (2010) Adams Prize (2011) Humboldt Professorship (2015) |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | CNRS/Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu University of Göttingen |
Doctoral advisor | Henryk Iwaniec[1][2] Peter Sarnak[2] |
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